Angry crowd in Iowa shouts at Rick Perry over Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

Gov. Rick Perry made a hasty exit out the back door of an Ames coffee house after a meet-and-greet ended with some angry shouts over his ad decrying the policy allowing gay people to serve openly in the military.

This video from the Des Moines Register captures the moment – with a cameo by spokesman Mark Miner striding by the dumpster plus an exceedingly cute, T-shirt-bearing kid braving security and saying, “My mom says she wants this signed.”

Mom got her T-shirt, but people who wanted photographs were disappointed as Perry declared that he had to head “back to the land” as he hurried into his vehicle on his way back to Texas for a couple of days